• Introduction
• Simple or advanced?
• ▼  Search techniques
• Combine & exclude
• Exact phrase
• Truncation
• Masking
• Subject headings
• Search entries
• Setting limits
• Thesauri & classifications
• ►  Search methods
• Improving search results
• Summary

Setting limits

Are you searching for a document in a specific language, specific medium or from a specific period? Setting Limits could be useful. You can narrow search results by applying search limits to types of data, such as:

• Publication type, such as: review, research article, conference paper, dissertation
• Language
• Publication date or publication period
• Material type, such as: journal article, newspaper article, book, audiovisual

N.B. This setting of limits can be referred to differently in databases. It is called Limit your results in Ebsco databases such as Business Source Premier and Filter by YouTube.